Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — STONE WILL SWING. [ARTICLE]

STONE WILL SWING.

The Wratten Murderer and Voluminous Liar Sentenced t o Hang. James Stone was brought from Jeffersonville to Washington, Friday night and pleaded guilty to the murder of the Wratten family, Saturday morning. A jury was impaneled and the care was quickly disposed of. The pr.soner having pleaded guilty no argument in his behalf could, of course, be made. The jury retired and in fifteen minutes returned a verdict finding Stone guilty as chanted in the grand {nry's indictment and sentencing him to lang Feb. 16,18 M.